Famous Quotes: Education

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
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I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
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I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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